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The Cathedral Eye Clinic, in collaboration with the University of Ulster, provides an extensive programme of continual professional development courses.

The varied programme (see timetable below) is designed to provide opportunities to engage with current thinking on topical issues related to eye care and also to provide continual professional development.
Royal College of Ophthalmologists CPD points and CET points for Optometrists are available on attendance. University certification is available on successful completion of individual courses.

Buffet supper provided courtesy of Alcon.

Programme Details 
Lectures will take place on Wednesday evenings from 7-8.00 pm, starting on September 3rd 2008 in the University of Ulster, Belfast Campus, York Street, Belfast. General public, optometrists, GPs, trainee ophthalmologists, nurses and students are welcome.

Date                 Title                                                                                    Lecturer                     
Wed 3rd Sept 08 Common ocular disorders- management for primary care Mr R Best: Cathedral Eye Clinic
Wed 24th Sept 08 Acute visual loss - diagnosis and management Mr S McGimpsey: Cathedral Eye Clinic
Wed 15th Oct 08

  Laser eye surgery is it safe?

 

 Mr J Fenton and Prof J.E Moore Cathedral Eye Clinic
Wed 29th Oct 08 Expert medico-legal report writing for the Clinician  

GP Partnership agreements, do you need one?

 Prof J Farnan: University of Ulster
Mr Stuart Horner
Wed 5th Nov 08 From birth to old age - what can go wrong with the front of the eye? Mr C Willoughby: Cathedral Eye Clinic
Wed 26th Nov 08
Multi-media in medical education- Can the body be dispensed with?
Refractive cataract surgery- Is it all the same?
 
Mr C Fitzpatrick: Cathedral Eye Clinic
Prof JE Moore: Cathedral Eye Clinic

Wed 10th Dec 08

The Importance of diabetic retinopathy screening
Binocular vision made easy
Mr J Fenton: Cathedral Eye Clinic
Rosanna Sadiq: Belfast Trust
Wed 14th Jan 09
Children with red eyes- are they all caused by bacteria?

Infection control

 
Mr C Willoughby Cathedral Eye Clinic
Prof JE Moore: Bacteriology, BCH.

Wed 28th Jan 09

The front of the eye a surgeon, his tools and progress

Vision through the eye of an artist
Prof JE Moore: Cathedral Eye Clinic
Mr Alan Wray, James Wray and Co.
Wed 4th Feb 09 Can genetics be used to diagnose and treat corneal diseases? Mr C Willoughby: Cathedral Eye Clinic
Wed 25th Feb 09 Modern management of medical retinal problems Mr R Best: Cathedral Eye Clinic
Wed 18th Mar 09 Glaucoma - Will it continue to cause blindness? Mr C Willoughby: Cathedral Eye Clinic
Wed 25nd Mar 09 Red eye - three questions to gain any diagnosis! Prof JE Moore: Cathedral Eye Clinic
Wed 15th Apr 09 Modern retinal surgery-What it can deliver to the N Ireland patient
Mr R Best: Cathedral Eye Clinic
Wed 29th Apr 09 Allergic eye / Dry eye disease- diagnosis and management Prof JE Moore : Cathedral Eye Clinic

 For further details apply online at www.biomedicalsciencesulster.com/eye

telephone +44(0) 7793226873.
 
 
All courses cost £20 per event to cover administrative costs.